discursive
Speech parts
1. discursive - Adjective
2. discursive - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
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Examples
The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.
It is high time that I should pass from these brief and discursive notes about things in Flatland to the central event of this book, my initiation into the mysteries of Space. THAT is my subject; all that has gone before is merely preface.
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.